I have had to distance myself a little from U.S. politics, just to keep my sanity. Every time I think the administration has reached it’s nadir, they find ways to keep digging. So, now Condi is the Secretary of State, and with almost no real resistance. Sigh. At least Senator Dodd called her out a bit. (You can see the… Read more →
Category: Head-Explodes
Institutional Inertia
When Trish pointed out to me that a Spanish Cardinal had made a statement substantially changing the policy on condoms of the Catholic Church in Spain, I was momentarily shocked, and then cynical. Here’s a bit of the USA Today article on it (I don’t have a link handy for a more adult news source, but hit Google yourself if… Read more →
Banjos playing through the broken glass
OK, time to unload some stuff from the hump of hate. Remember when I was openly mocking Alabama earlier? Well, they are trying to make me angrier: Roy Moore choice of GOP voters. Roy Moore’s defiance of a court order cost him the state’s highest judicial office. But his fame as the Ten Commandments judge could make the former Supreme… Read more →
You mean they didn’t find any?
I was going to comment on this CNN article, but I think Brian Wood has said everything I was going to say, and probably more succinctly at his LJ: wtf? U.S. ends search for WMD in Iraq “The search ended almost two years after President Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, citing concerns that Saddam Hussein was building weapons of… Read more →
Do you know the word ‘crapweasel’, Tom?
So, let’s look at the latest Delay news. First, the other shoe has already started dropping with regards to that little moment of optimism I had the other day. While it is true that “the Delay rule” was revoked, apparently the Republicans still managed to push through ethics changes that will make future probes much more difficult. Here’s a snippet… Read more →
Loo-seeeee
I literally do not know what to make of this piece from the Washington Post via Gibson: LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Lexington Herald-Leader featured a prominent clarification on its front page yesterday, apologizing for the newspaper’s failures in covering the 1960s civil rights movement. … “It has come to the editor’s attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil… Read more →
Sweet Home Jesusland
So, I’ve been sitting on a few things for a while, as I was too busy to do much posting. You may see a bunch of slightly dated stuff appearing over the next few days as a consequence. Anyway, for many years now I’ve thought of Tennessee as the spiritual home of American religious idiocy, dating back to the Scopes… Read more →
Making Light Of Gerald Allen
I was getting pretty depressed about the whole Gerald Allen story (which I had previously commented on) and then I read Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s take on the piece. She skewers him so thoroughly that I felt immensely better. (Later on, of course, when I start wondering why the mass of Americans, and the Administration in particular, doesn’t see what she… Read more →
Do you not understand how this looks to the rest of the world?
I just spent a week in Boston. While there I read the Globe. And I saw this article about the plans to return people to Fallujah now that the “insurrection” is over. Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing… Read more →
Should I laugh or cry?
According to the Times, in an article I saw on Locus, it doesn’t bother Pullman, who seems to be taking the Alan Moore philosophical approach to what Hollywood is doing to his books, but I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry… THE Hollywood adaptation of Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials, in which two children do battle with… Read more →
You got some ‘splaining to do…
Some of my friends in Kentucky (you know who you are) are going to have to submit to a lot of good natured teasing about the latest cultural center to be founded there. (I will save the raw hatred for the people actually doing the founding, of course.) (This is not to say there aren’t some embarrasing museums in Nova… Read more →
Irony Overload
Gay book ban goal of state lawmaker “Our culture, how we know it today, is under attack from every angle,” Allen said in a press conference Tuesday. Well, he gets one thing right. Can the universe please stop with the irony now? Read more →
Diametrically opposite models
I still can’t believe it’s 2004 and I’m devoting this much time to reading about religiously-based arguments against evolution. Sigh. There’s a nice round-up of evolution vs. “intelligent design” stories over at Orcinus. (I should add a filter so that any comment that includes “intelligent design” without the scare quotes would be instantly deleted. ) Even more important than the… Read more →
I love Harper’s
What you will find below are sample quotes from Precalculus For Christians, a text book published by that bastion of scientific thought, Bob Jones University, as reported in this month’s Harper’s magazine. Apparently the text is designed to help students “conform their thinking to biblical precepts.” (As an aside, I am stunned to realize I got my first Harper’s subscription… Read more →
Textbook disclaimer stickers
Taking the evolution sticker comedy one step further Read more →
